Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 2 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 3 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 4 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 5 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |